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Table 6 Policy impact on the demand volume of visits, by week (OLS)

From: Co-payments and equity in care: enhancing hospitalisation policy for Palestine refugees in Lebanon

 

Freq by 1000 PRL

 

(1)

PRCS

0.533***

 

(0.143)

Policy - Jan

-0.539***

 

(0.127)

Policy Jan x PRCS

0.537***

 

(0.189)

Policy - Jun

-0.285**

 

(0.118)

Policy Jun x PRCS

0.280*

 

(0.155)

Age

0.000

 

(0.002)

Distance

0.277***

 

(0.026)

Ramadan

-0.028

 

(0.112)

CLA

-1.288***

 

(0.043)

Constant

0.190

 

(0.157)

Observations

632

R-squared

0.732

  1. 1*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1. Robust standard errors in parentheses
  2. 2Full sample with month FE (January 2016 to October 2017)
  3. 3Note: We collapsed data to week level and normalized the hospital volume by the estimated number of PRLs in 2016 (280,000). The outcome variable is the number of hospital visits per 1,000 PRLs. Policy Jan is a dummy variable that indicates the period after the first policy change (from January to March 2016 onwards); and Policy Jun indicates the last version implemented in June 2016
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